21 Jun
2021
21 Jun
'21
8:39 p.m.
On Mon, Jun 21, 2021, at 12:05 AM, Van Snyder via cctalk wrote:
[snip]
denizen of the Fortran committees) is a LALR parser
generator. I use
the generator written by Al Shannon when he was Charlie Wetherell's
student, now updated, which implements David Pager's algorithm that
generates a parser that is LR where necessary and LALR or SLR or LR(0)
where possible.
Out of curiosity, which parser generator is this?; i.e., the one you use written by Al
Shannon, and since updated? I went digging in my files and online, though only cursorily,
and found Hyacc <http://hyacc.sourceforge.net/> by Xin Chen, which I hadn't
previously known about, but was wondering if you were referring to it, or something else,
maybe the original implementation of LR in Fortran 66, e.g.
<https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TSE.1981.230837>?
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